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Why Nutrient-Richness Can Help You Lose Weight

This is not to say that whole grains, such as whole wheat, can’t play
a very important role in a healthy diet, even a healthy diet geared
towards losing weight. All of the World’s Healthiest Foods can. It’s
just that their role should be more limited than that of fresh fruits,
salads, and vegetables, whose high amount of health-promoting
nutrients coupled with their low level of calories makes them the
perfect food to be the foundation of Healthy Weight Loss. Looking
at the charts again will really emphasize this. For 41 calories,
spinach features 22 nutrients of which it is very concentrated source,
while for almost four times that many calories whole wheat only
features four!

I’d like to add one further point about these total nutrient-richness
scores. As I have already noted, they let you see at a glance which
foods serve you best as the foundation for your weight loss program.
Right off the bat, they show you what salads and vegetablescan do
that no other food group can. The need to emphasize salads and
vegetablesin a World’s Healthiest Foods’ approach to weight loss
cannot be overstated!

Now that I’ve shared with you the basics of nutrient-richness, I’m
going to finish up Section 1 by telling you some of the important
ways that nutrients contained in these foods support your health.
Then I’ll move on in Section 2 to show you exactly how these foods
make it easier for you to lose weight.

One cup cooked cracked 16 calories

wheat

Nutrient %DV

Manganese 56

Dietary Fiber 33

Tryptophan 28

Magnesium 15